What are the best workouts and best exercises for beginners?

That is a question I get frequently, but especially during January (and then again just before summer) when people start working out again.

It's like people think there's a magic "beginner exercise" or "beginner workout"...

It's a reasonable question, but it really doesn't apply to anything else in life.

When you wanted to learn how to ride a bike, you didn't practice by riding a scooter. You practice by riding a bike, but with training wheels.

A football team does not prepare for a game by playing baseball. A team prepares by running through football plays at a slower pace, with less intensity and less duration.

The answer is, do the same thing!

Well kinda...

Do the same thing but with less weight, less intensity and less duration.

Just like with anything else in your life that you want to improve upon, you have to train yourself to get better and better at what you're trying to get better at doing.

It's not like you can do one type of work out as a beginner, but magically one day there's a graduation to a new different type of advanced workout.

One of the most frustrating things that prospective clients clients tell me is that they are going to "work out and get into a little bit better shape" before starting to work out at LiveFit.

Huh? How does that make any sense?

How can you get better at doing something without actually doing it?

You can't!

Same with marriage, same with parenting, same with your job you get better and better by doing and doing.

So don't let fear, doubt or uncertainty hold you back. Do a little bit of research on exercises, or a gym, or a bootcamp, or a CrossFit and try it.

If you don't like it, move on to the next thing. But sitting back and waiting, or doing nothing, is not going to help you. Ever.

A healthier, leaner and stronger you is waiting on the other side of your fears. Let's go meet her (or him)!